Thread: "his" and "her" mix up
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Old 02-Jan-2007, 18:23
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Default Re: "his" and "her" mix up
One of the problems with grasping this point is that his/her relates to the owner, while many languages mark the possessive for the gender of the thing owned. I attach a slide I produced for a Portuguese class. (Most Windows users will be able to open the WMF file; users of Visio are welcome to play with the source - VSD).

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